Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTOne recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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